Yeah, that's what I said. Each issue has a different artist though. That helps. The Scarecrow issue looks pretty good. Like a simplified BTAS storyboard.
Okay, at least here, we can tell what the fuck we're looking at. And every subsequent issue as well. But all in all, I'd say in terms of story and plot these are all fantastic. Just a shame how fucking awful the visuals of the first issue were. I still agree with though.
Flanderized? I thought it was a good characterization. He's not the kind of guy who just straight up murders people. He's slow and methodical and does it like a business transaction. I've always thought it was one of the better character moments for him.
I guess. It would still be a little unique among all of the other Batman rogues. Playing Saw through genuinely legal means is more interesting than being Zsasz. Or Joker.
I remember liking the Two-Face story from this series. The Joker story's art is shit though
Sebastian Scott
>Playing Saw through genuinely legal means is more interesting than being Zsasz. Or Joker. I wish the writers wouldn't play Saw with any of these characters, desu. Especially Riddler and Penguin. They got hit with that characterization the hardest to the point where it's getting annoying and cringey to see them go off the deep end and act like edgelords, whereas before it was at least intriguing in how unexpected it was. Now everyone has to write the Riddler like Jigsaw and Penguin like the serial killer version of Danny DeVito.
I liked Gaiman's "Secret Origins" story for her, but it did make the DCU a much smaller place (with Holland, Woodrue, Black Orchid's Creator, and Ivy all being colleagues of each other).
Noah Baker
I completely agree in terms of Riddler. Riddler never came across as a killer to me, and I don't think he should be a killer. He would consider himself above that. Definitely the weaker aspect of the Arkham games (where I'm pretty sure that comes from).
Fuck. This just reminds me. I don't have any of Joker's Asylum II, which includes the Riddler issue. Can anyone carry on once the first set here is finished with Two-Face?
I think the worst part about it with him is that it takes what was once a genuinely fun, developed character and turns him into something completely against the type, as if he wasn't interesting or worth liking when he wasn't being hyper grimdark.
For example, the Riddler story which I'm sure you'll be posting soon. It's fucking sad that we haven't seen that version of Eddie in a decade and probably never will again outside of more lighthearted stuff like Justice League Action. It's like the character's been stripped of his humanity and all that's left is an autistic murderer instead of, you know, a regular autist.
Guillem March does great cheesecake art but he still winds up being a bad fit for Batman books because his fight scenes are terrible. He just can't get the anatomy right, some of his Batman combat poses in the Eternal series were unbelievably contorted
It's a shame
Grayson Gonzalez
I know exactly what you mean, but like I said I don't have Joker's Asylum II. I would have sworn I did, but I can't find it. So someone else needs to post the Riddler and Killer Croc issues, which were the best in the series.
But yes, regular autist. That's probably the best description of Riddler there could be, and that's what I want from him as a character. And I mean that in the most positive way possible.
That was Tony Daniels' fault, who seemed to have gone out of his way to spite Dini by doing everything in his power to undo his character development.
Also >daily reminder that Enigma, aka Antimatter Riddler, was a thing and he nearly destroyed the Trinity to save his universe >DC has all but forgotten him despite having multiple chances to bring him back in a big way